1. Active element of the yellow in red = Orange
2. Passive element of the blue in red = Violet

<—–­Orange—–­Yellow&lt
;—­<—­<—­Red—­>—­>—­>Blue—–­Violet—–­>

In excentric Motion within In Concentric
direction itself direction

As in a great circle, a serpent biting its own tail
(the symbol of eternity, of something without end)
the six colours appear that make up the three main
antitheses. And to right and left stand the two
great possibilities of silence—­death and
birth (see Fig. 3).

FIGURE III.

The antitheses as a circle between two poles, i.e.,
the life of colours between birth and death.

(The capital letters designate the pairs of antitheses.)

It is clear that all I have said of these simple colours
is very provisional and general, and so also are those
feelings (joy, grief, etc.) which have been quoted
as parallels of the colours. For these feelings
are only the material expressions of the soul.
Shades of colour, like those of sound, are of a much
finer texture and awake in the soul emotions too fine
to be expressed in words. Certainly each tone
will find some probable expression in words, but it
will always be incomplete, and that part which the
word fails to express will not be unimportant but rather
the very kernel of its existence. For this reason
words are, and will always remain, only hints, mere
suggestions of colours. In this impossibility
of expressing colour in words with the consequent
need for some other mode of expression lies the opportunity
of the art of the future. In this art among innumerable
rich and varied combinations there is one which is
founded on firm fact, and that is as follows.
The actual expression of colour can be achieved simultaneously
by several forms of art, each art playing its separate
part, and producing a whole which exceeds in richness
and force any expression attainable by one art alone.
The immense possibilities of depth and strength to
be gained by combination or by discord between the
various arts can be easily realized.